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Woke NYC School Admits To Not Hiring People Who Don't Align With a Far-Left Ideology
BY Sarah Arnold
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HAVE RADICALS BEEN SO SUCCESSFUL AT INFILTRATION OF AMERICA'S INSTITUTIONS THE ABILITY TO TURN THE CLOCK BACK IS BEYOND OUR REACH AND OUR REPUBliC IS, THEREFORE, LOST? IF NOT, DO AMERICANS, WHO WANT TO MOVE THE CLOCK BACK, HAVE THE WILL, COMMITMENT AND ABILITY TO DO SO?
I FEAR THE FORMER.
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Iranian Terrorists Will Get Billions of Dollars Before Congress Can Review New Nuclear Deal
BY Adam Kredo
Iran will gain immediate access to billions of dollars in cash assets on the day a new nuclear accord is signed, money that will flow to Tehran's top terror organizations before Congress has a chance to review the deal, former senior U.S. officials and experts told the Washington Free Beacon.
Sanctioned entities linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)—the country's paramilitary fighting force that is trying to assassinate U.S. officials—will receive a massive influx of cash the moment the deal is signed. The Biden administration will also release some $7 billion in frozen assets tied to IRGC funding "prior to a single day of congressional review," Richard Goldberg, former director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction on the White House National Security Council, told the Free Beacon.
"While Iran is actively trying to assassinate former U.S. officials and kidnap Iranian Americans, the Biden administration is offering Iran billions in upfront sanctions relief for the IRGC prior to a single day of congressional review," Goldberg said. Other former U.S. officials who worked on the Iran portfolio estimate that about 172 sanctions will be lifted before the deal is submitted to Congress.
As the Biden administration and its European allies inch closer to securing a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear accord, former officials like Goldberg say Iran's global terrorism enterprise stands to receive an immediate boost in cash and clout as sanctions that handicapped Tehran's militant operations are lifted before Congress gets the chance to exercise its legal mandate to review and approve the deal. This day-one sanctions relief is part of a concessions package crafted by the United States to assure Iran that it will get access to hard currency even if Congress rejects the deal and pushes to maintain sanctions on the hardline regime.
While the Biden administration is barred from lifting sanctions before Congress reviews the deal, the White House is reportedly considering a workaround that will go into effect at the moment the deal is signed. President Joe Biden is expected to cancel three Trump administration executive orders that authorized sanctions on entities tied to Iran's IRGC, according to former U.S. officials and a recent policy analysis published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a nonpartisan think tank.
The executive orders authorized sanctions on Iranian financial institutions, its petrochemical and automotive sectors, and its manufacturing industry, as well as its mining, construction, and textile sectors. If Biden cancels these sanctions, a large tranche of cash will immediately become accessible.
This includes $7 billion in funds parked in international accounts that "will reportedly be unfrozen prior to congressional review pursuant to" the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, or INARA. The act was overwhelmingly passed by Congress in 2015 after the Obama administration inked the original accord without consulting the legislative body.
Iran's National Oil Company and Central Bank will be poised to receive these funds once sanctions are lifted. Both entities are designated under terrorism sanctions for their financing of the IRGC's Quds Force, which orchestrates terror attacks across the Middle East. Later on in the deal, terrorism sanctions on both of these entities will be lifted.
"Since this release is clearly tied to the nuclear deal negotiations, issuing a [sanctions] waiver before submitting the deal to Congress would be an even more brazen circumvention of INARA," according to FDD's analysis.
The Iranian sectors slated to get this sanctions relief generate an estimated 20 to 25 percent of Tehran's GDP and 62 to 73 percent of its non-oil exports, according to FDD. "Rescinding these executive orders may provide Iran with sanctions-free access to least $30 billion in annual export revenue, or more than $13.5 billion over the reported 165-day interim deal period—with that number growing after sanctions are lifted," the foundation predicts.
The initial $7 billion in cash—which will later be accompanied by around a trillion dollars in sanctions relief if the deal is approved—is part of a ransom payment paid by the United States for the release of four American hostages. That money has been frozen in South Korean banks but will be "remitted back to the Central Bank of Iran," according to Gabriel Noronha, a former senior Iran adviser at the State Department during the Trump administration.
Noronha said this money is certain to be used by Tehran to fund its global terrorism operations.
"We have a clear precedent how they will use those funds," Noronha said. "In 2016, President Obama's $1.7 billion ransom was sent from the Central Bank of Iran to the IRGC's budget account, which was then used to supercharge their terror activities."
Iranian officials even suggested at the time that "further hostage-taking would serve as an excellent method of balancing their budget," according to Noronha, who is a distinguished fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. "The Central Bank of Iran was also sanctioned by the Trump administration under terrorism designations for facilitating the transfer of billions in dollars and euros to the IRGC. The past is certain to repeat itself, and Biden's hostage deal would just pay for more Americans to be taken captive."
Further sanctions relief on the negotiating table would impact the Iranian government organization that funds assassination plots and puts bounties on the country's political enemies, such as author Salman Rushdie, the recent victim of a brutal stabbing attack.
Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran sanctions expert at FDD, said Iran's regime has made it abundantly clear it will not spend its cash windfalls on bettering its economy and people.
"Releasing frozen funds to the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism essentially puts Tehran's terror apparatus on steroids. That's akin to trying to put out one fire while causing another," Ben Taleblu said. "Regardless of the status of the IRGC's terrorism designation, a deal that still stands to offer major relief for other terror funding entities in Iran makes little strategic sense."
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A LOOK BACK AND FORWARD;
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Queen Elizabeth II, 1926–2022
The longest-ruling British monarch, who came to the throne when she was 25, died yesterday at 96. Here’s a look at her extraordinary reign — and what to expect from her son Charles as king.
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DO ALL THE SO CALLED, THEORETICAL/ACADEMIC, EXPERTS. WHEN PUT TO THE TEST, ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING?
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Janet Yellen’s Fantasy Economy
She defends Bidenomics by ignoring inflation and falling real wages.
The Editorial Board
Janet Yellen is a distinguished economist, but her tenure as Treasury Secretary hasn’t enhanced her reputation. Her lack of influence with President Biden has meant she couldn’t stop bad policy (student-loan cancellation), and now the White House is rolling her out in election season to portray the U.S. economy as a Valhalla of growth, fairness and optimism. It’s not believable even if you drive a Tesla and live in Montecito.
We lack the space to cover all of Ms. Yellen’s whoppers, but a couple of them give you a flavor of her fantasy economy. Start with inflation, which she dismissed in three quick sentences, including a claim that “the causes of inflation are largely global.”
Well, sure, Russia’s Ukraine invasion has contributed to higher energy prices. But U.S. inflation had already hit 7.9% on an annual basis before the invasion began in February. It was climbing fast in the autumn of 2021 when the Administration was still calling price increases “transitory.”
U.S. inflation has been substantially home-grown. Trillions of dollars in federal spending hit an economy that was already recovering strongly from the pandemic with a tight labor market. This goosed demand while supply was constricted. The Federal Reserve kept the money spigots open for too long, in part to finance the borrowing needed for all of the spending.
Even conventional Keynesians like Larry Summers concede the inflationary role of excessive spending, and a new study for the Brookings Institution by economists who concede they were wrong about inflation points to supply-demand factors. Ms. Yellen credits the $1.9 trillion in the March 2021 American Rescue Plan for saving the economy without mentioning that it was the gasoline that fueled inflation.
Ms. Yellen is also at pains to stress how much fairer the economy is since Mr. Biden took office. “Prior to the pandemic, higher inequality was accompanied by slower growth,” she says. The opposite is true. Before the pandemic, inequality was falling as wages rose faster for low-income workers than they did for the affluent amid healthy growth.
She fails to mention that the U.S. economy contracted by about 1% of GDP in the first six months of this year, even as real wages were falling. Real average hourly earnings declined 3% over the 12 months through July, and average weekly earnings by 3.6%. They’ve fallen 4.2% since Mr. Biden took office. This has made inequality worse.
Inflation hurts the poor and middle class more than the rich because they pay a larger share of their income for the basics of food and energy. To put it another way, the average American has seen his living standard fall sharply under the Biden-Pelosi-Schumer policy mix of unprecedented spending, easy money, more regulation and higher taxes.
Somehow none of this made it into Ms. Yellen’s list of economic achievements. Politics has its embarrassing demands, especially in an election year. But it takes a special kind of brass to describe the stagflation of the Biden era as an economic success. Voters will have to ignore what they see each day to believe it.
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Just Who Are Those (Semi) Fascists of Yours, Mr. President?
By John Kass
Did President Joe Biden really pour steaming buckets of official White House hate upon the heads of 75 million American citizens simply for the sin of disagreeing with him?
Yes, he did.
With just two months before the most important election in our lifetimes, Biden decided to kick those tens of millions of Americans to the margins of society. He branded pro Trump MAGA Republicans as hateful fascists, or “semi-fascists” (whatever that means).
Mr. President, you call them fascists, you dehumanize them. And what do you do with opponents who are less than human? Just about anything you want, right Joe?
Just a few days ago, with the critically important 2022 mid-term elections just two months away, the president made that “non-political” speech of his, the speech his White House puppet masters said was about his battle for “the soul of the nation.”
There was no soul in the president’s speech. It was ugly, dark and hostile. He treated the nation the way he and his Department of Justice treat the parents of American school children who dare question woke curriculum taught in public (government) schools–as potential domestic terrorists.
Biden’s designers set the stage, offering that dark, blood-red wall of Philadelphia’s historic Independence Hall. It was bathed in shadow, a marriage of Leni Riefenstahl and Joseph Stalin. Or was it a gathering place for Sith Lords? And the U.S. Marines standing on guard behind him, made it clear that this was official White House business.
Biden raged against the enemies of the state, those MAGA Republicans, saying they represented “a clear and present danger” to the country. Isn’t that what the autocrats say before they start rounding up dissidents and have them stand against the wall? I hope the president provides a blindfold, perhaps a pack of Camel Wides, and a lighter.
“MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution,” Biden said. “They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election. And they’re working right now, as I speak, in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.”
Was it all paranoid and grotesque and over the top? Yes, of course it was. It was a distraction from the multiple failings of his administration. It was nothing like his 2021 inaugural address, in which he at least tried to act as a responsible leader of a divided nation.
“We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors,” Biden said then. “We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury.”
But that was then. He certainly brought plenty of bitterness and fury to Philadelphia last week. And he offered Americans who disagree with him not much place to stand, except perhaps up against that blood-red wall of his.
Then the next day, the president said he really didn’t mean it.
“Come on, look guys,” Biden told reporters. “You keep trying to make that case. I don’t consider any Trump supporter to be a threat to the country.”
Who is this guy? Is he the president of the United States throwing bloody red meat to his partisans, including his shock troops of the corrupt legacy corporate media, the same media that colluded with Big Tech to suppress the pre-election newspaper stories in The New York Post about his son’s corrupt business dealings with China and Hunter’s laptop from hell?
Or is he some doddering old geezer full of his own hot gas, a meat puppet whose own words mean nothing to him now, and never did?
Mr. Biden is a serial fabulist, a well-known plagiarist and a racist demagogue who used a fake Foghorn Leghorn voice to shout at black voters that Republican milquetoast Mitt Romney would put them all in chains.
Legacy corporate media carries his water, including mainstream press like The New York Times and The Washington Post and network TV news shops CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and public television. And having so many water carriers does help him try to distract voters.
But the people could see what was missing. He talked of how he loathes political violence and the Jan. 6 riots, but Chewbacca Man–with the horns on his head–wasn’t going to take over the government. What sane person doesn’t loathe political violence?
Many of us didn’t like what happened on Jan. 6, but we also hated what happened to American cities in 2020 with the George Floyd riots, when Democrats weaponized those “mostly peaceful” protests in the hopes of driving the Democrat vote and great cities were put to the torch. Some, like Chicago, haven’t recovered.
Yet in Philadelphia against that blood red wall of his, Biden didn’t mention the riots of 2020. He didn’t mention the Democratic left doxing conservative Supreme Court justices, by publicizing their home addresses, or the attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Or the arson attacks on all those pro-life crisis pregnancy centers.
He didn’t dare talk of inflation or rampant street crime in the big cities. He didn’t talk of Americans being forced to choose between buying expensive groceries or costly gas to get to work. He didn’t talk of his trillion-dollar college tuition bribe for votes, putting the cost of tuition on the backs of working Americans. Or the schoolchildren and parents who were bullied by the national teachers unions and blue-state Democrats during the hysteria that closed schools, taking care of school union politics while leaving children irreparably harmed in ways we won’t fully understand for years.
The president’s speech was all about misdirection and fear. Biden’s handlers are afraid of the people. And the people know the country is on the wrong track. They have no confidence that Biden can lead.
And they don’t care what conservative or liberal pundits say. They read the bad news in their thinning wallets, their 401 Ks, and weak bank accounts. They won’t forget what they see there.
In his bizarre speech, Biden put the metaphorical heads of his political enemies on spikes.
Perhaps that did satisfy some pro-Biden journalists who constantly scream warnings about conservatives yet yearn for authoritarian one-party rule from the left. Why? The left has always been about force. You don’t think leftist journalists can be fascists themselves, particularly those who virtue signal to all who’d listen, prattling on and on about not ever expressing their opinions?
If so, then you really don’t know them, do you? But I know them.
Former President Donald Trump is amoral, yes, and transactional, but he is no a fascist. When he was elected in 2016, I wrote that Trump wasn’t the cause of political change, he was merely symptomatic of American loathing of the elites. Trump voters are the opposite of fascists. They seek freedom from government. They don’t want to empower it.
It is the Democrat wielding the federal hammer that they oppose. And Biden? He’s simply a useful idiot, a corrupt fool in a twisted symbiotic relationship with his crackhead son Hunter. Joe is the aging meat puppet of Deep State American Kemalists. As long as he played ball, they kept him around.
Yet Biden barked on and on about those “MAGA semi-fascists.” Well, just who are those “semi-fascists” of yours, Mr. President? Look around you. Open your rheumy eyes. The fascists who pose a “clear and present” danger to the republic are not MAGA Republicans. They’re Democrats.
These days fascism lives on the political left, in media, and Democrat politics. Think of Big Government power and Big Corporate leverage joined by the reach of Big Tech to suppress troublesome news and thoughts. This is the new Democrat Iron Triangle. It does not tolerate dissent.
Will the president’s speech move voters–meaning the people, independents, the Republicans and the Democrats– before the mid-term elections that are now just two months away? Did Joe Biden’s basket of deplorables moment in Philadelphia change many minds?
I don’t think so. The American people might not understand fascism from the left. Some might remember Stalin and Hitler were both socialists. But most Americans know the [resident for who and what he is. They’re not stupid, even if some politicians treat them that way.
They made up their minds about Biden long ago. They look in their wallets, they see inflation eating their retirement savings. They know who’s to blame for the high price of gas, too.
And now they’re just waiting for November.
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